09/23/2025
Whoopi Goldberg and hosts finally speak out against Jimmy Kimmel's suspension: "No one silences us!"
“Did y’all really think we weren’t going to talk about Jimmy Kimmel? I mean, have you watched the show over the last 29 seasons? No one silences us. When the news broke last week about Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, we took a breath to see if Jimmy was going to say anything about it first. You cannot like show and it can go off the air. Someone can say something they shouldn’t and get taken off the air. But the government cannot apply pressure to force someone to be silenced... We talk about freedom of speech a lot because we are always in somebody's mess because somebody has decided that we have said something that's offensive, but we fight for everybody's right to have freedom of speech because it means my speech is free, it means your speech is free."
Ana Navarro added: “I don’t understand how in this country, where the first amendment was made to the constitution to guarantee freedom of the press and freedom of speech, how the government itself is using its weight and power to bully and scare people into silence.”
Read more here: https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/whoopi-goldberg-the-view-slam-jimmy-kimmel-suspension-1236526008/
